Selective retention processes that create tensions between novelty and value in business domains

Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 245-259

  Ford, Cameron M ^a   Sullivan, Diane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410611925     Document Type: Chapter

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